Illustrations About Death

Final Buzzer

College basketball games have forty minutes of gameplay. The result isn’t final until the last buzzer sounds, but many games are over long before that.

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Death to Life

“To most folks, piles of rotting food scraps and decaying yard waste may conjure images of death and decay. But if you think about it,

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Handling Death Differently

Loss impacts everyone, and we each manage it a little differently. The children’s show Bluey (season 1, episode 8, “Copycat,” directed by Joe Brumm, aired April 12,

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Tough Thoughts

“Like adults, children need space to express their wondering thoughts around death. They might share them through the stories they tell while playing, or through

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Measure For Measure

“William Shakespeare based a whole play on the second verse of Matthew 7. Measure for Measure is classified as a ‘comedy,’ and indeed everything works

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Life Raft

Matt Chandler says, “When Jesus Christ showed up, he was born as the life raft in a sea of condemnation, death, and destruction. He did

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Brush Your Teeth

Jesus took the ordinary stuff of life—a wedding, some jugs of water—and made it into something extraordinary by his presence and his miracle power. Jesus

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Living with His Dwelling

Video game characters provide an interesting analogy for how Paul talks aboutGod’s Spirit in this passage. In a video game, the characters aren’t alive. Thegame

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Fear Of Death

Fear of death and the desire for immortality is real. Alcor is a business that markets resurrection. People can pay tens of thousands of dollars

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We Choose

In the Middle-Earth stories The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, we encounter the story of Gollum. Gollum started out looking and acting like

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Buried with You

Many funeral homes have information on their websites letting you know what objects you can be buried with. They even have coffins available with drawers

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Why We Celebrate

There is already protocol in place for when the Queen of England passes away. One of the more interesting details is that the BBC will

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System Failure

Using the example of a computer virus, writer Will Timmins writes on Romans 7: “Like a computer virus, sin has entered inside the system (‘living in

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Shadows

“Donald Grey Barnhouse, who was a pastor at Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia for many years, lost his wife when his daughter

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